Daniel Lewis, PhD

Daniel Lewis is the Dibner Senior Curator for the History of Science and Technology at The Huntington, where he is responsible for the science and technology holdings from 1800 to the present. He has had postdoctoral appointments at Oxford University, the Smithsonian, and the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich. He has a faculty appointment at Caltech, where he teaches upper-division courses on environmental history and humanities. Lewis is the author of three books, with a forthcoming book from Simon & Schuster about 12 species of trees. He currently serves as a commissioner for the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Species Survival Commission. He also won an Emmy in 2020 for his work as a producer on the KCET series Women in Aerospace.

Authored works include Star Struck: One Thousand Years of the Art and Science of Astronomy, Iron Horse Imperialism: The Southern Pacific of Mexico, 1880-1951, The Feathery Tribe, and Belonging on an Island: Birds, Extinction, and Evolution in Hawai‘i .